Re: Re: Read/decode barcodes from an image

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Al <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If anything can do it, it'll be ImageMagick
>
> Adam Randall wrote:
>
>> I'm amazed that this either doesn't exist, or is hard to find. I
>> basically am looking for a way to read in an image into PHP, or shell
>> out to something on the Linux side, and determine, and see if it has a
>> barcode in it or not. If it does, I need to decode the barcode so that
>> I can identify the page as a separator page or not.
>>
>> Basically, what I'm doing is reading in a PDF or TIF which will
>> contain multiple pages (probably a lot of pages) and look for a page
>> containing a barcode. The barcode will identify the page as a
>> separator page which will be used to split the multipage document into
>> smaller single or multipage documents.
>>
>> Has anyone ever heard of anything that might help me in this process?
>>
>> Adam.
>>
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your best bet would likely be to find an open source OCR package (like
http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ ) and shell out to it to do the reading in. One
of our clients wrote a .NET app to just this that renames the file with the
ocr barcode after which we pick it up and handle the rest

hth

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